And the Lord gave them rest on every side, according to all that He has sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their hand.The faithfulness of the Lord still amazes me many times. At this point, the Israelites aren't doing so well overall. They've left several of the nations they were commanded to destroy intact, able to come against them in the future. Yet despite this, God gives them the peace that He had promised He would, and keeps their enemies at bay.
I still wonder why God did not keep the pressure on them. If He had not given them peace until they finished the job, what would have happened? Would they have fought on, pressing against the remaining inhabitants until the job was done? Or would they have broken, abandoned God because they did not think they could succeed? It's at points like this where I have to remind myself that God does know the big picture better than I do, and He knew what would happen with this incomplete work.
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